2/11/2009

Description: On Monday we went out for the first time with our cooperating teachers. Since I am doing Special Education I am going to different rooms and seeing which one I liked the best. My first room that I was in was a resource room. I have never been able to observe a resource room before.

Analysis: When observing the room I walked around and looked at what the students were doing. These students were capable of doing their own work so they did not need much help.

Reflection: While observing the classroom I noticed a couple things. During the warm up the teacher just told them students what to do and then gave them 15 minutes to complete the warm up. During the 15 minutes the teacher just sat at her desk and payed no attention to the students at all. Some of the students just sat there and did not do anything. This was very irritating to me because I think that in a classroom like that the students need to be payed more attention to so they stay on task. I really wanted to go up to the students who were just sitting there talking and ask them to try and at least write down a couple sentences. Also since it was a resource room there were not that many students, so I would think that the teacher would be more attentive. There was one student who was in a wheel chair and had a computer screen attatched to it. The student was not capable of writing for I am assuming that the student slowly makes remarks on her computer and her aid figures out what she is trying to say and writes it down for her. After observing this type of classroom it makes me want to stay in there so I can help monitor the students and work with them so they actually get stuff done instead of just sitting around.

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